HEALTH & BEAUTY
The winner takes it all W
inning is going to be on the minds of local residents this month with the Regatta in full flow. If you are lucky enough to own a boat
or crew on one you are already a winner. Of course, coming first in your race will be the icing on the cake of a glorious week of mucking about on the river. Winning means winning and that means coming first,
not ‘well done for taking part’ or ‘everyone’s a winner’. I know protecting the feelings of our children are important but in real life there are winners and losers with no escap- ing this fact.
Time-honoured ways of scoring a race
include first, second and third. Now we have countless runners up, best effort, best of the rest and soon we will have a prize for best trainers. Learning how to be a good loser is one
You will be shocked to
of life’s great lessons. If you can have that experience early on in something as un-life threatening such as the egg and spoon race then its part of your education. Sadly, doing your best may not be good enough on the day but at least you tried. Yes, its disappointing but life will go on and your Mummy will praise you anyway and make you feel better. However if at this point you are presented with food as a consolation prize then you may fall prey to ‘comfort eating’ later in life.
Children who become used to winning because of their talents or efforts are hopefully as gracious in their victory just as the losers are taught to be gracious in their defeat. There is nothing more unattractive than crowing or in the case of footballers, dancing and stab- bing the air while hurling slurs at the opposing team. Its possible to slide from being the winner to plain old showing off and we all know where that gets us? At the Oscars
know how many people are involved in the team that cre- ates the way you look.
By Rowena Kitchen
or Emmys, or even the lowly British Baftas, people accept- ing their trophy for Best Actor or Actress or Best lighting camera man often start their speech by saying ‘ This is for everyone on the film I am merely collecting it on their be- half.’ No you are not, you blinking WON it for what you did, yes plenty of people were involved in making sure you looked good, from costume to lighting to speech therapist, but YOU won it. If it is for ‘Everybody’ it comes under the category ‘Best Picture’ just in case you are confused…. There is always a team or group of people behind any
achievement at any level, from shipping goods overnight to a meal served in a restaurant. We all need a great team around us, and if you treat ‘your’ team with respect and courtesy you will get even better results. Raising children or running a company needs a team vast and wide in their knowl- edge and expertise. We can only hope that our choices of team mates are the right ones and that we in our role are a useful member of someone else’s team. You will be shocked to know how many people are involved in the team that creates the way you look. Starting with the obvious
such as hairdresser, dentist, doctor and the nice person behind the counter at Boots selling you your moisturiser and lipstick.
But wait there’s more…
Imagine yourself as the point of a pyramid and work down. Do you use a gym or sports facility? You can count all the people you can see with no effort such as front of house staff, personal trainers, cleaners, parking attendants and the smiling lady in the juice bar who sells you that Smoothie that undoes all the work you have just done. Invisible team mem-
bers include those who own the chain of gyms, those employed to design the concept, to do the advertising, the experts to choose machine types and that’s not all of the people responsible for your hour in the gym by any means. So when somebody says ‘Hey all that time in the gym has
Illustrations by Lisa Wyman
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